Livestock 2012: Top 10 cattle health and welfare issues
The Cattle Health and Welfare Group (CHAWG) have released a report on cattle health and welfare concerns across Britain.
A number of organisations across the cattle industry were asked to list their top ten concerns.
The report found that the health and welfare challenges for the beef and dairy sectors were very similar.
| Top Cattle Health and Welfare Concerns across GB | |
| Beef | Dairy |
| Fertility | Fertility |
| Mastitis | Mastitis |
| Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis | Lameness |
| Bovine Viral Diarrhoea | Bovine Viral Diarrhoea |
| Johne’s Disease | Johne’s Disease |
| Liver Fluke | Bovine Tuberculosis |
| Nutrition | Nutrition |
| Calf Pneumonia | Calf Pneumonia & Scour |
| Calf Scour | Parasitic Gastroenteritis /Lungworm |
| Parasitic Gastroenteritis /Lungworm | Genetics |
You can read the whole report on the EBLEX website
For more on this topic
See our Livestock 2012 event page